oculus, Solea Alcock [A. W.] 1889:285, Pl. 18 (fig. 3) [Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal v. 58 (pt 2, no. 3); ref. 85] About 32 miles southwest of Puri, Orissa coast, Bay of Bengal, Investigator station 38, depth 7 fathoms. Syntypes: BMNH 1890.12.4.8-9 [ex ZSI] (2), ZSI F12429-30 (2). Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:159 [ref. 20743], Menon & Rama-Rao 1975:45 [ref. 22148]. •Valid as Heteromycteris oculus (Alcock 1889) -- (Krishnan & Mishra 1993:235 [ref. 24016], Munroe in Randall & Lim 2000:646 [ref. 25122], Munroe 2001:3881 [ref. 26314], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S122 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:48 [ref. 27712], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 12 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:596 [ref. 37272], Desoutter-Meniger & Chapleau 2022:397 [ref. 40245], Ummath et al. 2024:[8] [ref. 41632]). Current status: Valid as Heteromycteris oculus (Alcock 1889). Soleidae. Distribution: Northern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: southwestern India and Sri Lanka east to South China Sea. Habitat: marine.